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Israel pushes deeper into Lebanon just days after Israel's prime minister ordered 70 percent of Gaza to be occupied.

Secretary of State for Defense of the United Kingdom John Healey noted that Royal Air Force jets are already deployed to Romania to support NATO air policing

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A Russian drone wounded two civilians in Romania on Friday, days after Lithuania detailed how Moscow is also steering Ukraine's drones onto allied soil.

A Russian drone wounded two civilians in Romania on Friday, days after Lithuania detailed how Moscow is also steering Ukraine's drones onto allied soil.
Operators of unmanned systems units from the Department of Active Operations of Ukraine's military intelligence continue blocking the "Crimea–Donetsk" land corridor and destroying Russian military equipment deep behind enemy lines.

Pakistani officials hold talks with Rubio in Washington Pakistani officials held what Islamabad described as a “warm and cordial” meeting with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington, DC, amid ongoing efforts to mediate between Washington and Tehran. According to Pakistan’s foreign ministry, Rubio acknowledged Pakistan’s diplomatic and mediation efforts during the discussions. Deputy Prime Minister and foreign minister Ishaq Dar said he remained confident that Pakistan’s continued

The US-Israel war on Iran has disrupted trade, rattled financial markets and raised concerns over global energy supplies, particularly through the Strait of Hormuz, a key route for oil and gas shipments.
French far-right leader Jordan Bardella on Trump: I see an American president who changes his mind regularly. With President Trump, what is true on Monday is not necessarily true on Tuesday. France must be an ally of the United States, but not a subordinate one. If the United States enters a conflict that does not serve French interests, France has no reason to join that conflict.
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Romania openly follows the EU and NATO’s foreign policy course, the Russian embassy to Bucharest said
Former CIA officer John Kiriakou says he believes Jeffrey Epstein was a Mossad "access agent" — used by Israeli intelligence to gather compromising material on powerful figures for blackmail.
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A provision hidden in a House defense bill would formally merge US and Israeli military technology programs — including shared weapons development, joint production, and linked computer networks. Source: Responsible Statecraft

Central Asia is tilting more decisively towards China as geopolitical uncertainty deepens, with Beijing’s expanding influence recasting the former Soviet states’ strategic orientation. In the final instalment of a three-part series, Cao Jiaxuan examines how Central Asian members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation have shaped the bloc’s response to the US-Iran conflict. Read the first part here and the second part here. As Kyrgyzstan gears up to host the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation...
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China's PLA intercepted Dutch frigate HNLMS De Ruyter in the South China Sea near the Paracel Islands, deploying warships, corvettes, and J-16 fighters — and applying electronic jamming — to force the ship and its helicopter to leave waters Beijing claims as territorial. The Netherlands says it was exercising lawful freedom of navigation under international law.
Estonia may be forced to introduce mandatory military conscription for women by 2040, as male birth rates have collapsed from 15,000 boys born annually to just 4,000–5,000. The head of Estonia's Defense Resources Agency says the country won't be able to fill its 4,100 annual conscription slots with men alone — calling mandatory female conscription a question of "when, not if." Source: TVP World
Russian special forces used a handheld Yolka kinetic interceptor drone to shoot down a Ukrainian strike UAV in Donetsk direction.
The figure hardens a growing consensus among Western officials: Russia is on its heels for the first time since the Kremlin launched its invasion in 2022.
The figure hardens a growing consensus among Western officials: Russia is on its heels for the first time since the Kremlin launched its invasion in 2022.
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Israeli strikes in south Lebanon kill 11, including paramedic Israeli air strikes across southern Lebanon have killed at least 11 people, including a paramedic, and wounded eight others, according to reports from Al Jazeera Arabic. The casualties were reported after Israeli attacks hit the towns of Maaroub, al-Abbassiyah and Tayr Debba in the Tyre district.
A network of influence agents linked to Russia's military intelligence agency, the GRU, is conducting a large-scale disinformation campaign targeting migration issues in Ukraine.
Japan gave ~$14.7 million to NATO’s Ukraine procurement fund (PURL), its first contribution to the mechanism. Money is restricted to non-lethal gear only (body armor, radar, etc.).

When Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr accepted the Asean gavel from Malaysian counterpart Anwar Ibrahim in Kuala Lumpur last October, the script was already written: a packed agenda, South China Sea diplomacy in the spotlight and a regional digital economy deal to clinch. Then the world changed. On February 28, US and Israeli forces struck Iran. The Strait of Hormuz, an artery of global shipping through which 98 per cent of the Philippines’ crude oil imports travel, became a war zone...
Among the winners are a system that was key during the Operation Roaring Lion against Iran, a classified Mossad asset, and the breakthroughs in the Ofek satellite array.
NEW: The head of U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) held a rare meeting Friday with senior Cuban military officials at the perimeter of Guantanamo Bay to discuss operational security matters. The Cuban delegation included a senior general from Cuba's military leadership. Source: Reuters
Trump posts a 581-word Truth Social post about the Kennedy Center.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmail Baghaei says that an agreement with the US “has not been finalised yet."

NATO is considering how to improve NATO countries’ defense against drones, a spokesperson for NATO’s Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe said

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Ukrainian leader's move to rename army unit after fighters who killed Poles in WWII causes 'outrage' in Poland.

US President Donald Trump on Friday said he would be making a final decision on a potential deal to end the US-Israeli war against Iran ahead of a high-security meeting in the White House Situation Room. But after more than two hours of deliberations, no decision has yet been forthcoming.

Both countries have refuted the allegations and accused the agency of bias.

US imposes fresh sanctions targeting Iranian entities The US imposed new counterterrorism sanctions on Friday targeting Iranian individuals and entities, according to a notice published on the Treasury Department's website.
May 29 (Reuters) - The United States issued new counter-terrorism sanctions on Friday targeting Iranian individuals and entities, among others, a notice on the Treasury Department website showed. (Reporting by Ismail Shakil and Bhargav Acharya; Editing by Daphne Psaledakis)
Bessent insists on Iran: We did not have regime change, but we changed the regime. The first-level leaders decapitated, the second-level leaders decapitated. So, we're dealing with the third level.

The news agency dismissed as untrue US President Donald Trump’s earlier remarks that Washington, in cooperation with Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency, will extract enriched uranium and dispose of it